[NCLUG] open source... [was: RE: some other lost thread]

Matt Taggart taggart at carmen.fc.hp.com
Fri Jan 4 14:43:58 MST 2002


quent writes...

> My introduction to computer science and Unix was through the papers
> written by Ritchie, Thompson, et al, long long ago.  I still have my
> copy of the Bell Labs Technical Journal that Dave Ditzel gave me, along
> with the John Lions commentary on version 6 Unix. I think Lions called
> their writing style "terse and whimsical". It was a joy to read Dennis
> Ritchie's technical reports.

Why Quent, you never told us you're an old fart. :)

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart at fc.hp.com





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